FP&A Lead: Board-Ready Finance with AI-Driven Planning

Harmattan AI; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Harmattan AI in Paris is seeking an FP&A Lead to own the group FP&A, building the finance function architecture and serving as the numbers reference for the board, investors, lenders, and ExCo. You will shape reporting, modelling, planning, and systems across multiple entities.

This role requires 10+ years in FP&A or finance leadership, experience building multi-entity models, ERP-driven reporting, and hands-on AI in finance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of FP&A or finance leadership experience.
• Proven board-grade financial modeling experience.
• Experience managing budgets and forecasts across multiple entities and currencies.
• Strong experience with ERP-driven reporting and automation.
• Hands-on use of AI in finance for analysis and reporting.
• Credibility with investors and lenders and ability to tell a numbers-driven story.
• Background in scale-ups, tech, or defense sectors with contract-based economics.
• Structured, rigorous, and comfortable in high-growth, ambiguous environments.
• Strong quantitative background from engineering or business schools.

Responsibilities

• Own group reporting to the board and investors, including the quarterly board pack and monthly investor update.
• Build tailored models for lenders, investors and advisors.
• Architect the financial model with scenarios, runway and cash burn model with Treasury.
• Orchestrate the end-to-end planning cycle: budget, reforecast, challenge, consolidation and the long-term business plan.
• Provide management control across the group’s entities as one of the functional counterparts of regional finance managers.
• Structure the finance data foundation: ERP data and processes, entity rollout, close and reporting automation, KPI framework and FP&A calendar.
• Embed AI into FP&A workflows (analysis, reporting, forecasting and close automation), within the Group’s data security framework.
• Model strategic scenarios such as new countries, M&A and cross-perimeter arbitrations.
• Lead and develop the FP&A team, and build its roadmap in alignment with the wider finance roadmap.

Skills

FP&A leadership

Board-grade model

Multi-entity / multi-currency

ERP reporting

AI in finance

Investor relations

Education

Engineering or business degree

Tools

ERP systems

Automation tooling

Job description

Harmattan AI in Paris is seeking an FP&A Lead to own the group FP&A, building the finance function architecture and serving as the numbers reference for the board, investors, lenders, and ExCo. You will shape reporting, modelling, planning, and systems across multiple entities.

This role requires 10+ years in FP&A or finance leadership, experience building multi-entity models, ERP-driven reporting, and hands-on AI in finance.